9378280

Facilitating Video Search

PublishedJune 28, 2016
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14 claims

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1. A method comprising: locating a video associated with a display page; locating a video data associated with the video; matching the video to a unique event; retrieving at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event; generating a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data; augmenting the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and using a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.

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2. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising building the weighting equation.

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3. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the video data comprises one or more of a video content data, a metadata, a filename, and a description text associated with the video.

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4. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising using the video search index entry to determine that the video is responsive to a query.

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5. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein matching comprises classifying the video based on one or more of the following attributes: genre, source, episode, season, date, event date, air date, release date, and participant.

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6. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein augmenting comprises: using the additional information data to classify the video; using the classification to retrieve other information associated with the video; and using said other information to augment the video search index entry.

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7. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the additional information data is obtained from a first source and augmenting comprises using the additional information data to find other information from a second source.

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8. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein retrieving comprises querying a database.

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9. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein retrieving comprises querying an episode database or a movie database.

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10. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein weighting comprises weighting additional information data less heavily than matches based on an original video description and/or other video data.

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11. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising learning an association between videos from a first source and further information available from a second source.

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12. A method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising learning an association between videos from a first source and further information available from a second source, using human validation and tuning.

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13. A system of facilitating video search, comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to: locate a video associated with a display page; locate a video data associated with the video; match the video to a unique event; retrieve at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event; generate a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data; augment the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and use a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.

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14. A computer program product for facilitating video search, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for: locating a video associated with a display page; locating a video data associated with the video; matching the video to a unique event; retrieving at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event; generating a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data; augmenting the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and using a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.

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June 28, 2016

Inventors

Edwin Seng Eng Ong
Aleksandra R. Vikati

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